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Paul Whiteman's Orch. - Sweet Lady, 1921

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Channel: 240252 · 2016 · Music

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Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra – Sweet Lady, Fox-Trot (featuring: There’s a Sunbeam For Every Drop of Rain) from the Musical Satire “Tangerine”  (Crumit-Zoob-Carlo-Sanders), Victor 1921 (USA; accoustical)

NOTE: How can I help it, I like so much those early Paul Whiteman’s accousticals! A couple of days ago we had a Foxtrot/Charleston “Ah-Ha!”, now is another little known tune “Sweet Lady” from the successful but shallow and forgettable Broadway “musical satire” “Tangerine”, from 1921. Staged at the  Casino in New York, it starred a couple of well-known performers Julia Sanderson and Frank Crumit (who also wrote music to the hit-tune “Sweet Lady”). The satire was about the “world of men” vs the “world of women”. Three men, who are jailed for not paying alimony, are somehow transported to an island Tangerine, which is ruled by the bad king. On that island, women do the whole men’s job and men do nothing but sitting at home and enjoying their idleness. Yet, after some time  men begin to understand, that “doing nothing is no good” and women notice the “hardship of being the men”. All story ends up with reparation of three marriages and everybody’s happy, ofcourse. This recording – in which the Whiteman’s banjoist Mike Pingatore goes simply mad – I dedicate to Trombology, who declares herself as lover of the “jolly, propulsive banjo”! 
The music is accompanied by photoshow with the Fashionable and  Sweet Ladies from the year 1921.

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